Darron Froese
Site Reliability Engineer, Datadog Inc.

Darron Froese has been building things for the Internet since the early ’90s, when he first discovered Mixmaster remailers and Usenet. In 2014, after running nonfiction studios for 12 years, he moved to Datadog to be a site reliability engineer. Darron enjoys short build times, resilient infrastructure, clusters that keep their quorum, and breathing compressed gases underwater.

Datadog had 400 VMs in AWS, was ingesting millions of metrics per second, and was having pain around service discovery and quick configuration changes. Darron Froese discusses how Datadog integrated Consul into its environment, mistakes made and lessons learned, and some tips for successful implementation in your own environment.
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